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3/19/2013 4:53AM

Osborne Unlikely to Ease U.K.’s Budget Reins

U.K. Chancellor George Osborne is unlikely to ease fiscal policy in his budget on Wednesday even though the U.K. economy is teetering on the edge of a triple recession. Dow Jones’s David Cottle looks at his options for getting the country moving again.

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